Wellspring Church Weekly Sermon

The Lord is My Song | Exodus Part 12

This is our last week for this series on God’s plan of deliverance for the Israelites, bringing us to chapter 15, to the song of Moses and Miriam. Last week, we saw that through the parting of the Red Sea and the display of God’s power over the Egyptians, God was showing his glory, that the Israelites — and us with them — might be eternally ‘wowed’ by God’s greatness, that we might never lose sight of the one who calls us. As this part of the story comes to a close, we see Moses, and then Mi...

Rev. Sunder Krishnan - Show Me Your Glory | Exodus Part 11

Retired pastor of over 35 years at Rexdale Alliance Church, Sunder Krishnan's message reflects on God's glory then and as it is revealed in Jesus today, both Lion glory and Lamb glory.

Rev. Darin Martin - God's Faithful Presence | Exodus Week 10

Guest Speaker and Worship Leader Darin Martin teaches on the pillar of cloud and fire that guides the Israelites through the desert in Exodus 13:17-22.

Saved by the Blood | Exodus Part 9

This week we come to the final plague God brings to display his power and release His people from Pharaoh’s grip. Bible commentator D. A. Carson writes, “The importance of this event cannot be overestimated. It signalled not only the release of the Israelites from slavery, but the dawning of a new covenant with their Redeemer.” It’s the Passover. The tenth and final plague is the greatest and worst of all the plagues where God warns Pharaoh that he will send the judgement of death upon the f...

God Has No Rivals | Exodus Part 8

Last week in the story of Exodus, we transitioned from God’s preparation to the plagues, in moving from Exodus ch. 6 to 7-8:19, as we looked at the hardness of Pharaoh’s heart versus our need to keep a soft and repentant heart toward God. As we continue this week to look again at the plagues — these acts of mercy sent to soften and pry people’s hearts away from worshipping false gods — we now cover plagues #4-9. The key verse in our text for this week is ch. 9:16 where God says regarding Pha...

Our Heart Toward God | Exodus Part 7

Up until this point in Exodus (ch.1-6), God has been preparing his people for their deliverance by revealing, calling, and giving Moses and the Israelites the assurance of his Word to save them, to do what he said he will do — even if it feels delayed — as we heard last week. Now, chapter 7 marks a transition in the story to the 10 plagues. The plagues will be the means by which God will now reveal himself, to not only Pharaoh but all Egypt, but also the Israelites, too. The plagues will be ...

God's Assurance | Exodus Part 6

Last week, in Exodus 5, we saw the need for us to persevere in our walk with God, as faithfully following God sometimes makes life harder instead of easier...but in the end always better. This week, as we turn to Exodus 6, we see that following God and trusting in his saving work for our lives also entails faithfully waiting on God to fulfill his promise. Our chapter this week begins with God telling Moses, “Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh...” Only God’s definition of ‘now,’ seems...

God's Voice | Exodus Part 5

How do you respond when faithfully following God’s Word makes life harder instead of easier? This week, we turn to Exodus 5 where Moses and Aaron faithfully follow God’s Word in going to tell Pharaoh to let God’s people go. Pharaoh rejects God’s voice (v.2). In hearing their request, Pharaoh not only rejects their message but answers back by making the Israelites’ labour ‘harder’(v.9). Seeing the trouble Moses’ obedience to God’s call and God’s Word has brought to their situation, it says, t...

Don't Compromise Your Call | Exodus Part 4

Over the last three weeks in our Encountering God through Exodus series we have learned that not only does God see us but wants us to see Him and know Him. Knowing who God is is foundational for doing life with God. Once God makes Himself known to Moses He calls him to participate in God’s mission to save God’s people so they can be His people again. In this way Exodus foreshadows the entire story of Scripture where God rescues people from sin by sending a Saviour, Jesus, so they can be His ...

God Calls | Exodus Part 3

In the opening chapters of the story of Exodus, we have so far seen that God is a God who sees, that God sees us and remembers us — even if things look to the contrary. Last week, we saw that when God draws us, he first reveals himself, as God did for Moses at the burning bush. This week, we see that God also calls us, and that God’s calling upon our lives is not dependent upon who we are but who God is, as He calls each of us to serve Him as His witness in the world. Only how does Moses res...

God Reveals Himself | Exodus Part 2

Last week, we ended examining chapters 1-2 by seeing that ‘God Sees’ us and always remembers us — no matter how it may look. This week in chapter 3, we see through the call of Moses that God’s call upon our lives to be saved and then to serve Him graciously first begins with ‘God Revealing’ Himself. In this text, we see God introduce and reveal Himself to Moses in four ways, as the God who 1) is over Creation, 2) is Holy, 3) is Generational, and 4) Intimately Speaks. These are the ways God a...

God Sees | Exodus Part 1

God sees our plight and has a plan to rescue our lives.

Looking for Hope

Pastor Dan shares a new year message from Psalm 121, Looking for Hope.

An Unexpected Gift

Jesus: God's Unexpected Gift

Last week, we began this advent series looking at how, even though Jesus’ birth was unexpected, his coming was God’s plan all along — something we see from Genesis to Revelation. This week, as we look at the birth of Jesus, we see that he is also God’s unexpected gift to each one of us. In the OT, in Isaiah 9:6, it says, “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given.” Perhaps the most well-known verse in all of the Bible, John 3:16 states it again: “God so loved the world that he gave his...

Growing a More Powerful Prayer Life | Plugged into Prayer (Week 4)

For our fourth and final week in our series Plugged into Prayer, we are going to look at what James says about prayer. In our text, James says that pretty much every situation is an opportunity to pray. Are you in trouble? Are you happy? Are you sick? Are you in need of getting right with God? The answer, James says, is always to pray — to go to God, to talk with God, to relay your heart and your needs — as well as the needs of others — to God through this incredible gift we call prayer. But...

Who is My Neighbour? | Plugged into Prayer (Week 3)

This is our third week of our Plugged into Prayer series. The first week we learned how we should pray though the Lord’s Prayer in Matthew 6. Jesus provided a model for the practice of prayer that started with God and invited us to participate in his kingdom work in this world. The second week we looked Paul’s prayer for the believers in Ephesus in Ephesian 1. Paul persistently prayed for these believers remembering them regularly as he prayed to the Father. Through prayer we are invited to ...

Remembering Others in Prayer | Plugged into Prayer (Week 2)

This is our second week in our new Plugged into Prayer series. In week 1, we looked at the prayer Jesus gave us: The Lord’s Prayer. This week, we look at the example of the Apostle Paul’s prayer in Ephesians 1, where he writes, “I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers” (v.16). By praying, God not only wants us to remember Him, and to remember to come to Him with our needs, but in prayer He also wants us to remember others. Our text for this week is, basically,...

Teach Me to Pray | Plugged into Prayer (Week 1)

This is the first week of our new Plugged into Prayer series. Over the next four weeks we will learn how God wants to shape our lives around the practice of prayer. Throughout this series we will look at various prayers of Jesus and the apostle Paul in the New Testament. This week like the disciples in Matthew 6, we are going to sit with Jesus and learn from him how to pray. Although called the “Lord’s Prayer” it was actually the “disciples prayer” which became a model of prayer and life for...

Guest Speaker JC Alzamora

Listen as special guest Juan Carlos 'JC' Alzamora speaks.  Guest Juan Carlos 'JC' Alzamora is a gifted preacher and also operates in the spiritual gift of prophecy as he ministers. His passion is to see people's walk with the Lord come alive. Originally from Venezuela, he travels the world helping to plant churches and encouraging congregations, with emphasis on teaching about the ministry of the Holy Spirit.

Encourage One Another

In Hebrews 10:25, we are told to “encourage one another,” because encouragement is something we all need. At one time or another, all of us get discouraged and are in need of being encouraged. The biblical concept of encouragement literally means ‘to come alongside to build up.’ Proverbs 25:28 says, “A person without self-control is like a city with broken-down walls.” Encouragement is about building back up the walls of a person’s heart through faith in the hope of Christ. We can’t control ...

Embrace Your Mission | Pursuing Jesus (Week 6)

In the Bible, we see that God is at work in the world, and he wants us to join him. After the resurrection, the Gospel of John says Jesus appeared to the disciples to show them he was alive, to dispel their fear, and to then commission them with his Spirit to carry on his mission. Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” Our English word mission comes from the Latin word missio, which means ‘to send.’ As the Father sent him, now, Jesus sends us into the w...

A New Command | Pursuing Jesus (Week 5)

As we continue our series on our church vision and values, this week look at our core value of Relationship. In John 13, Jesus said, “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” Out of the love of God, Jesus initiated deep relationship with his disciples, even when he knew one of them would betray that love, as we see in this pivotal chapter in the Gospel of John...

Change Your Mind | Pursuing Jesus (Week 4)

This week we are continuing our Pursuing Jesus series looking at our vision and values as a church. Last week we looked at the core value of being Spirit-led and this week we are focusing on Transformation. This core value is that we would experience transformation through Jesus on every level of our lives from the way we think (head), feel (heart) and live out our faith (hands). Evidence of a transformed life is usually seen through changed behaviours (how people live) but this change often...

Surrendering to the Spirit | Pursuing Jesus (Week 3)

This is the third week in our fall series focused on our vision and values as a church. In week 1, we looked at our vision: pursuing deeper life in Christ - to be passionate pursuers of Jesus — to not just be fans but true followers. In week 2, we looked at the foundation of our vision: God’s Word. This past week, have you been growing a stronger grip on God’s Word by being in God’s Word? Memorizing it? Meditating on it? This week, we look together at the first of our church’s four core valu...

Pursue Jesus with His Word | Pursuing Jesus (Week 2)

This fall we are looking at what it means to pursue Jesus through the words of Jesus in the Gospel of John. John opens his gospel in a unique way, calling Jesus the ‘Word’ that “became flesh and made his dwelling among us” (1:14). It means that Jesus is God’s living Word to us. Later in John 8, Jesus said to his disciples, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free” (vv.31-32). And then in John 15, Jesus says, “If y...

Pursue Jesus with His Word

This fall we are looking at what it means to pursue Jesus through the words of Jesus in the Gospel of John. John opens his gospel in a unique way, calling Jesus the ‘Word’ that “became flesh and made his dwelling among us” (1:14). It means that Jesus is God’s living Word to us. Later in John 8, Jesus said to his disciples, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free” (vv.31-32). And then in John 15, Jesus says, “If y...

Fan or Follower | Pursuing Jesus (Week 1)

Join us as Pastor Shane begins our new fall sermon series on Pursuing Jesus.

Victory Through Defeat | Experiencing God

Listen as Pastor Dan breaks down the story of Jacob wrestling with God.

Rahab: God Redeems Our Story | Encountering God

Is The Lord With Us? | Encountering God

Check Out This Week Sermon by Guest Speaker Tommy Tsui answering the question Is The Lord With Us?

When Your Faith Is Tested | Encountering God

Check out this week Sermon by Pastor Shane on the times When Your Faith Is Tested.

Faith in Desperate Times | Encountering God

Check out this weeks Sermon given by Guest Speaker Jon Miller for Week 3 of our Encountering God Series.

Let's Celebrate: Enjoying Salvation Together

Check out This Weeks Sermon given by Guest Speakers Alex & Jose Castro.

Encountering The Holy | Encountering God

Check out this weeks Sermon as Pastor Dan talks about Encountering The Holy.

3 Voices, 3 Choices | Encountering God

Listen to Pastor Shane as he discusses 3 Voices and 3 Choices in this weeks sermon.

Unmatched Authority: Jesus Heals the Demoniac | Lives Changed by Jesus

 This week we conclude our Lives Changed by Jesus series by examining the story of a man who is in a situation that we would call impossible. This man could arguably be considered the most tortured person that we read about in the pages of scripture. This is a man who possessed not by one demon but a legion of demons who terrorized him day and night. As we read about his condition, we learn that humanly speaking this man is beyond help and beyond hope until he meets Jesus and is changed fore...

Pressing in to Jesus | Lives Changed by Jesus

As we near the end of this series (one more week to go), this week’s passage is not about one person’s life being changed but two — two daughters whose stories are intermingled. The first woman we look at is the woman who suffered an abnormal period that lasted 12 long years — that is until she was healed and called a ‘daughter’ by Jesus. The second was a young girl, the daughter of Jairus, who died before Jesus reached her, only to then be raised back to life. The first woman’s story is san...

The Key to Life-Change | Lives Changed by Jesus

In most bibles, the title given to our text for this week is ‘Jesus Honours a Syrophoenician Woman’s Faith.’ That is what this story teaches us: what Jesus honours is FAITH. But what kind of faith? This life-changing story of Jesus takes effort on our part to get to the heart of because embedded in Jesus’ words is a potentially disturbing response given in parable, an allusion to Jesus’ call first to Jews, and an affirmation that a demonic spirit had possessed a child. But underneath all of ...

The Untouchable | Lives Changed by Jesus

The gospel of Mark reads like an action movie trailer cutting quickly from scene to scene. Unlike the other gospels, Mark does not rely on genealogy or birth narrative but demonstrates Jesus’ authority as the Messiah through both word and deed. Jesus heals sickness and casts out demons as he brings the kingdom of God to bare against disease, death, and the devil. Jesus demonstrates his authority when he touches the untouchable and heals a leper. As we examine the story we will learn that the...

Timothy: Fan the Flame | Lives Changed by Jesus

In every genuine believer is the gift of God — the living presence of the Holy Spirit. But as Paul tells a young Timothy in our text for this week, God’s presence and gifts in us are something we must tend to and ‘fan into flame.’ Timothy is one of the most talked about figures in the New Testament. His journey of being changed by Jesus seemed to be less a dramatic moment of change (like that of the forgiven woman in last week’s text) to more of a gradual change. In 2 Timothy 3:15, Paul talk...

Four Life Changing Words | Lives Changed by Jesus

When someone has done something for you of great significance, our response is usually one of gratitude. This week’s scripture revolves around the story of a woman at a dinner party who knew she had been forgiven of her sin. In your bible, she may be referred to as the ‘sinful woman.’ But after encountering Jesus, she should probably be known as ‘the forgiven woman.’ Remarkably, Luke tells us that this woman shows something for Jesus that the host of this party, Simon the pharisee, did not —...

Changed by Jesus. For Others. | Lives Changed by Jesus

This week we are going to examine how when Jesus changes lives it is not only for the individual but others. The change that Christ does in us is also meant to be done through us as we share Jesus did others. As we enter a relationship with Jesus we get caught up in the mission of God to rescue and redeem the nations of the world. Sharing Jesus with others can be challenging, but we are going to examine how Philip shares Jesus with an Ethiopian Eunuch in Acts 8. As we do we are going to see ...

Forgiven and Healed | Lives Changed by Jesus

This week we look at yet another life changed by Jesus. In our text, the gospel writer Mark tells us that word has gotten out about Jesus’ power to heal, deliver, and change lives, which draws crowds of people to Jesus. This leads four guys to do something daring — to bring their paralyzed friend to Jesus for healing by literally lowering him through the roof of the house Jesus was teaching in. The story breaks down into two parts: 1) the first part is about Jesus’ ministry to the man on the...

Lydia: A Heart Opened by Jesus

This week we begin a new message series looking at various lives in the New Testament changed by a single common factor: an encounter with Jesus. Some were seeking Jesus, others were found by him. Some met Jesus face-to-face, some were told about him by others. We begin with a woman named Lydia from the story of Acts 16. While we are not told a lot about Lydia, there is a lot we can learn from her life. Her encounter with Jesus did not appear overly dramatic but nonetheless miraculous in the...

Lydia: A Heart Opened by Jesus | Lives Changed by Jesus

This week we begin a new message series looking at various lives in the New Testament changed by a single common factor: an encounter with Jesus. Some were seeking Jesus, others were found by him. Some met Jesus face-to-face, some were told about him by others. We begin with a woman named Lydia from the story of Acts 16. While we are not told a lot about Lydia, there is a lot we can learn from her life. Her encounter with Jesus did not appear overly dramatic but nonetheless miraculous in the...

Faithful in the Small Things | Jesus + Nothing (Week 6)

This week we wrap up our look at the book of Colossians. The big idea of this week’s focus is that the small things we do for Christ can be used of God to make a BIG difference. In this last chapter, the apostle Paul lists small ‘every day’ things believers are called to practice that God will use to impact the lives of both believers and unbelievers alike — sometimes in a big way — such as taking a moment to pray for someone or bringing God into a conversation. Paul ends his letter by also ...

Whatever You Do... (Serena Gould Testimony) | Jesus + Nothing (Week 5)

The first half of Paul’s words in Colossians focus on theology, doctrine, and understanding the supremacy of Jesus as “the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation” (1:15). The second half of Colossians is about the difference being in Christ makes in our life in the practical. One of the things we learn about life in Christ from this week’s passage of scripture is that whoever we are, wherever we are, and in whatever we do in life, we are "to do it all in the name of the ...

Putting on the New Self | Jesus + Nothing (Week 4)

In chapters 1-2, Colossians focuses on the supremacy and sufficiency of Jesus. Now, as we move to chapter 3, Paul begins to focus on what applying the truth of Jesus’ supremacy to our lives should look like. In other words, the first half of Colossians is theological about Christ. The second half of the book focuses on the practical in putting on what Paul calls the ‘new self.’ To do that, from Paul’s words, we see the need to give Christ supremacy in four dimensions of our life: ‘life above...

Rooted in Christ | Jesus + Nothing (Week 3)

The book of Colossians is all about the importance of knowing Christ — that living in Christ is everything. But in this week’s passage, the apostle Paul warns that after coming to faith, we can still be led astray. The point of this text is that we must continue to stay connected to Christ. It’s only when we continue to ‘live in him’ just as we first ‘received Christ,’ that we will experience the fullness of what he has done for us. So, it’s important that our confession of Christ be accompa...